Comment by lovich
3 years ago
The Italian market doesn’t have to apply to Google USA either.
Companies can always choose to ignore a specific nation’s laws[1], they don’t still get access to that nations markets. At the borders the nation state is the one with the guns and firewalls
[1] unless you piss off a nation that can project global power, lol if you piss off China or America
First time I've heard of China projecting "global power". Are there cases of it happening?
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1714248/more-chinese....
Chinese and American police forces both operate abroad and like to flex their power. The NYPD was in a similar situation post 9/11 when they started trying to police nearby states and when they sent operatives to other countries even against their own federal government [1].
Russias also sent operatives overseas in some fairly public assassinations. It’s not really surprising that China does this, it appears to be the default operating procedure of powerful countries
[1] http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stre...
All over Africa, in a more heo political sense. Also along the new silk road all the way to Europe. Just to name two.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/china-the-arctic
https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/chinas-presence-in-africa-is...
https://www.cadtm.org/Chinese-geopolitics-continuities-infle...
Apple complying with Chinese laws, and providing Chinese government access to private data.
Google, Facebook etc. being blocked in China.
etc.